NMAK16009U Gams and Modelling

Volume 2016/2017
Education

MSc Programme in Mathematics-Economics

 

Content

The contents of other operations research courses (such as OR1) cover the fundaments and theoretical exercises of basic mathematical programming such as linear programming. This course is more practical and focuses on the modeling, implementation and solution using GAMS of real-life problems in the fields of transportation, energy and economics.

Learning Outcome

At the end of the course the student should have:

  • gained knowledge of practical opmization problems, relevant mathematical models, and suitable solution methods;

 

  • acquired skills to comprehend and sort data for optimization problems, present a correct problem description based on data, formulate linear programming models for large-scale optimization problems, both with continuous and integer variables, implement and solve such problems in GAMS, and analyze the solutions;

 

  • obtained competences within formulation and discussion of mathematical models for optimization problems, implementation and solution of such problems in an efficient way by use of the optimization system GAMS.
Operations Research 1 (OR1)
1 x 2 hours of lectures and 2 x 2 hours of exercises/project per week for 7 weeks. In addition to this, individual project work.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Exam
  • 1
  • Lectures
  • 14
  • Preparation
  • 91
  • Project work
  • 72
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Oral examination, 30 minutes
30 minutes oral examination with 30 minutes preparation time.
Exam registration requirements

The student must hand in one project that must be approved

Aid
Only certain aids allowed

During the preparation time, all written aids allowed.

In the examination, some written aids allowed (keywords, main results of project, etc.)

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Two internal examiners.
Re-exam

As the ordinary exam. If the project were not approved before the ordinary exam it must be resubmitted at the latest two weeks before the beginning of the re-exam week. The project must be approved before the re-exam

Criteria for exam assesment

The student must in a satisfactory way demonstrate that he/she has mastered the learning outcome of the course.